The young writer Mohammed Hassan Khalifa died while at the Cairo International Book Fair.

Islam Ahmed, the owner of the Tabarak House, which printed his first writing and titled "Announcing a Lonely Heart," said, "Muhammad Hassan Khalifa came to see his story collection and then he felt tired and fell to the ground and we tried to save him and move him to the nearest hospital, but he died." Ayed that Muhammad Hassan Khalifa, after leaving Tabarak House, walked to the corridors of the book fair, but fell unconscious in front of the "Culture Palaces Authority".